Client Spotlight: Martha Borie Wood
Folio highlights this issue’s inspiring client who is giving back to the community
When Martha Borie Wood moved to Lake Bluff almost two decades ago, she enlisted the help of Mariani Landscape to design and maintain her home’s landscape. Eighteen years later, Wood is still thrilled to be a Mariani client and remains a passionate advocate of preserving and restoring the Great Lakes and its ecosystem. “I’ve grown up along Lake Michigan my entire life, so it’s a region that is very dear to me,” says Wood.
As the part-time manager of events programming for the Alliance for the Great Lakes, Wood manages fundraising events such as Sunset Sail, the Big Lake Bash and Taste of the Great Lakes to support her organization’s mission—to conserve and restore the world’s largest freshwater resource through policy, education and local efforts aimed at preserving the Great Lakes region as a national treasure. “The Great Lakes make up nearly 20 percent of the world’s surface freshwater supply and provide drinking water for more than 40 million U.S. and Canadian citizens,” says Wood. “We must continue to protect this invaluable source.”
For more information on the Alliance for the Great Lakes, visit http://www.greatlakes.org.
